[Vision2020] The more things change the more they stay the same

[Paul Rumelhart]

Trust me, I'm not saying that Obama is bad on all fronts.  I'm just 
disappointed in this decision.  Maybe there are good solid reasons for 
this that both the previous administration and the current one 
acknowledge, but I'm still disappointed in it.  I think the work Obama 
has done on Guantanimo and other overseas bases is great, and some of 
the other things he is doing is worthy of his potential.  I just wish he 
had done the same here.

Paul

Tom Hansen wrote:
> Paul Rumelhart stated:
>  
> "In my opinion, it's wrong to torture prisoners AND it's wrong to 
> hold them indefinitely. If I'm understanding this correctly, Obama 
> just failed us all here."
>  
> Yes, Paul.  That does tend to upset me.
>  
> Yet, when examined amongst the other accomplishments of President 
> Obama since January 20th (30 days ago) . . .
>  
> Signed executive order establishing strict guidelines for lobbyist who 
> want to work in the White House.
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-EthicsCommitments/
>  
> Announced executive pay caps
> http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.executive.pay/
>  
> Signed executive order to close GITMO and secret CIA camps overseas
> http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_alter_CIA_interrogation_detention_0122.html
>  
> Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, legislation to fight pay 
> discrimination and ensure fundamental fairness to American workers.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKAKlurRAY
>  
> Signed the S-Chip legislation giving 4 million kids health insurance.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1gCF9U2Cc
>  
> Cancelled 77 leases around Arch's National Park (Utah) that had been 
> auctioned off to oil and gas companies.
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008709435_drill04.html
>  
> Signed the Stimulus Bill
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100785745
>  
> I can overlook a little oversight.
>  
> I am quite pleased . . . no make that impressed . . . with President 
> Obama's first THIRTY days.  Aren't you?
>  
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>  
>
> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to 
> go to work."
>
>  
>
> - Roy Zimmerman 
>